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February 14, 2015 at 4:30 pm
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Terri Warren
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well, my goodness, I am so sorry to have missed this!
The usual rate of transmission from females to males having sex about twice per week without condoms and without antiviral therapy taken daily is 4% per year – that is, 4 men would be infected in this situation. With daily antiviral therapy, the rate is about 2% per year.
Transmission occurs most often in the first six months of relationship because people are usually having a lot more sex then for longer period of time and thus the vulnerable people are often not in studies because they are already infected. Does that make sense?
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Terri